Everest marathon 27th November

An early cold start and a medical demonstration of what to do in case of an emergency. Basically if someone is hurt you have to stop and help if you have to stop for a long time your time will be adjusted. We then set off up the valley retracing my run the morning before. I took Menai a long time to warm up and she found the climb up to Dungla difficult. We had a tea break at Dugla before taking on the toughclimb up to the terminal moraine of the Khumbu glacier. At the top there were some sobering memorials to those who have died on Everest- there were lines of memorials going into the distance.  We then had a steady climb up to Lobuche for an hour. On the way we saw a huge eagle and a rescue helicopter on a mission up to Lobuche. After a good lunch a few of us headed to the moraine wall to look at the glacier which was pretty ugly, covered in moraine, pitted with lakes and deep crevasses. At we went along the ridge of the moraine we saw more of the western ridge of Everest, Lho La into Tibet but the scene was dominated by the beautiful Pumori to the west of Everest.